| acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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| acrimony | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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| crime | (noun) (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act | Synonyms: criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking |
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| (noun) an evil act not necessarily punishable by law | - |
| criminal | (adjective) guilty of crime or serious offense | - |
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| (adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: felonious |
| (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
| (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
| criminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalization |
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| criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| criminalism | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminality, criminalness |
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| criminality | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminalness |
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| criminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalisation |
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| criminalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| (verb) treat as a criminal | - |
| criminally | (adverb) in violation of the law; in a criminal manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a shameful manner | Synonyms: reprehensively |
| criminalness | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminality |
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| criminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, impeach, incriminate |
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| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, reprimand |
| criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| criminological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
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| criminologist | (noun) a specialist in criminology | - |
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| criminology | (noun) the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement | - |
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| crimp | (noun) a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled | - |
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| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimper |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication |
| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: pinch |
| crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
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| (noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
| crimson | (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: red, violent |
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| (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
| (adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: flushed, red-faced, red, reddened |
| (noun) a deep and vivid red color | Synonyms: deep red, ruby |
| (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, flush, redden |
| cybercrime | (noun) crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs | - |
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| decriminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalization |
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| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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| decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| discriminable | (adjective) capable of being discriminated | - |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
| (verb) distinguish | - |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
| discriminating | (adjective) showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| discrimination | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: favoritism, favouritism |
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| (noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: secernment |
| discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
| discriminator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: differentiator |
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| discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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| (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
| encrimson | (verb) make crimson | - |
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| incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
| incriminating | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminatory |
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| incriminatingly | (adverb) in an incriminating manner | - |
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| incrimination | (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame, inculpation |
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| incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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| indiscriminate | (adjective) not marked by fine distinctions | - |
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| (adjective) failing to make or recognize distinctions | - |
| indiscriminately | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, haphazardly, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| (adverb) in an indiscriminate manner | Synonyms: promiscuously |
| indiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: undiscriminating |
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| lacrimal | (adjective) of or relating to tears | Synonyms: lachrymal |
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| (adjective) relating to or located near the organ that produces tears | Synonyms: lachrymal |
| lacrimation | (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, tearing, watering |
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| lacrimator | (noun) a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds | Synonyms: lachrymator, tear gas, teargas |
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| lacrimatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lachrymatory |
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| recriminate | (verb) return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return | - |
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| recrimination | (noun) mutual accusations | - |
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| recriminative | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminatory |
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| recriminatory | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminative |
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| scrim | (noun) a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater | - |
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| scrimmage | (noun) a noisy riotous fight | Synonyms: battle royal, melee |
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| (noun) (American football) practice play between a football team's squads | - |
| (verb) practice playing (a sport) | - |
| scrimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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| scrimpy | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, stingy |
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| scrimshank | (verb) avoid work | - |
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| scrimshanker | (noun) a shirker | - |
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| scrimshaw | (noun) a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers | - |
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| scrimy | (adjective) dirty and disgusting | - |
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| (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, niggardly |
| undiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: indiscriminating |
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